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Too successful: Malcolm Little with his Freightliner.
Former Masterton man Mal-
colm Little is an angry man.
The national truck racing
body has banned the Freight-
liner race truck he drove to
three national titles.
And it s all over 25mm of
steel on the depth of his chas-
sis. The official ruling is that
the fractionally stiffer chassis
gives him an advantage on the
track. So that s it -- no more
Malcolm Little, nobody left to
challenge the Aussies who
come over and towel us each
year and one less truck on the
track, bringing the NZ fleet
down to just five.
All for being too successful,
according to Malcolm, who
now lives and works in Otaki.
They re calling me a
cheat, he said on Friday.
But this businessman and
mad keen truck racer is no
quitter. He s steadily im-
proved to be the best in the
country and he s not backing
down now.
It s going to cost me
$50,000 to build a new truck.
I told them, and they accept,
that it won t be slower than
the Freightliner. It ll be quick-
er. All the good bits from the
current truck will go into the
new one and there s lots of
improvements I can make.
One is in weight. The cur-
rent engine qualifies the truck
for the B class, which can be
up to 500kg lighter than the A
class in which Malcolm has
run. That s a huge saving
when it comes to acceleration
and braking, and the rules
now allow all classes to com-
pete for the national cham-
pionship.
I ve already got the chassis
rails laid out on the factory
floor, Malcolm said. I m
going to keep the fibreglass
cab and the paint job -- it will
look identical to the current
truck. But it will be a rocket
ship by comparison.
This would have been my
20th season, he said. This
new truck will be built to last
for another nine years.
Sweet 'chariots' swinging low
Winning start: Spike Taylor
made a dream start in the
opening round of the New
Zealand sidecar championship.
By KEVIN BALL
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Masterton man Spike Taylor
made a dream start to the
New Zealand sidecar cham-
pionship at Ruapuna when he
and swinger Astrid Hartnell
recorded three first places.
It was the team s first out-
ing on the Swiss-built former
world championship-winning
LCR rig.
It was amazing, to say the
least, the former New Zea-
land champion said last week.
We were just bedding it in.
We had trouble with the fuel
injection in practice and emp-
tied the bank account buying
and fitting a big new one,
Spike said.
We qualified second, which
is what I wanted, he said.
We got a massive start and at
the end of the first lap we
were four seconds ahead.
After five laps we were 14
seconds ahead but by then we
were starting to have gearbox
problems and we finished 11
seconds ahead. I couldn t
believe it when the chequered
flag came out.
During his retirement
from sidecar racing Spike had
a go at karting and he reckons
that experience is paying off
now.
That taught me to go for it
right from the start and that s
what we re doing now.
Race two saw them get a
good start going on to win by
18 seconds.
Despite more gearbox trou-
ble in race three, the New
Zealand Grand Prix, they still
managed to win by five
seconds.
That gave us a lead of 15
points in the championship,
Spike said. I thought we d
struggle at Timaru so we built
up slowly he said.
The gearbox trouble
recurred in practice and they
came in fearing it was seriou-
sly damaged.
Dennis was on the span-
ners and he found the gear
selector was off its retainers.
Others pitched in to get the
bike going again, but it still
didn t feel right.
We had hardly any brakes,
it wouldn t stop. Dennis
cleaned them and we did
qualifying with me leaning on
the brakes to heat them up,
and they came right. We
qualified third in 1.18s, which
was only by couple of seconds
slower than the leaders. My
chest pad came loose and my
ankles got burnt from the
exhaust . . . lots of little things
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We know Jeeps sell well in New Zealand, as our
last test car was sold from under us last month.
Worldwide, Jeep has surpassed its previous 1999
global sales record by selling more than 700,000
vehicles in 2012. Global sales were up 19 per cent
and the American market saw a 13 per cent
increase.